Springboard reports week-on-week and year-on-year declines
Footfall across UK retail destinations dipped last week, on both a weekly and annual basis; by -1.2 per cent from the week before and by -2.5 per cent from the same week last year, according to data from Springboard.
All three destination types lost footfall, but it was high streets that were hit the hardest with a drop of -1.4 per cent from the previous week and by -3.9 per cent year on year. Shopping centres just -0.5 per cent of footfall over the week and -1.5 per cent annually. And in retail parks footfall declined by a similar proportion to high streets from the previous week (-1.2 per cent) and by -0.8 per cent annually.
The drop in footfall on an annual spanned the entire UK, as it did on a weekly basis with the exception of Scotland where footfall rose by +1 per cent from the week before. Interestingly for shopping centres, footfall rose from the week before in four geographies (East Midlands, Scotland, the South West and Wales) and on a year on year basis in two geographies (Greater London and Scotland
